APPOMATTOX CONFEDERATE SURRENDER RELICS Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant

  

LEE Army of Northern Virginia. IMAGES BOTH ABOVE AND BELOW DESCRIPTION. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR APPOMATTOX SURRENDER. Bank Note from Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

Here is an extraordinary collection of relics from General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S.

Grant at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865. A remnant from the last Confederate flag to fly over Richmond before its fall.

Most likely a fragment of a "Stainless Banner", the last official national flag adopted by the Confederate Congress. At Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865. A cover letter describing and authenticating these relics from Abram Burtt Lawrence, Union Lt. Col and Chief Quartermaster of the 24th Union Army Corps.

The overleaf is docketed with the presentation: To Adjnt James H Gillison USV Compliments of A B Lawrence, USV Warsaw, N. On the official letterhead of the Office Chief Quarter-Master, 24th Army Corps. In the field May 5th 1865. This is to certify - That the attached is a piece of the Confederate Flag that floated over the Rebel Capitol in this City of Richmond, Va. Captured in the surrender, and by authority of the U. Provost Marshall General Patrick, was by me cut in pieces for distribution as a significant memento of the rebellion and surrender.

The Confederate note attached is a part of the Funds of the "Army of Northern Viginia". At Appomattox Court House Va. April 9, 1865, and receipted for me as such as Acting Chief Quartermaster U.

Forces at Appomattox Court House Va by order of our. CIVIL WAR RELICS, NOT REPRODUCTIONS. The flag remnant measures 3" x 2.5" and is made of loosely woven fabric (light-weight canvas). The autograph document signed by A.

Lawrence measures 8" x 10.5" and is written in ink. All items bear a punched hole. The three were likely bound together with the red ribbon used for binding Civil War documents. Years later, to open such documents, the ribbon needed to be cut.

Hence, giving birth to the expression "cutting through the red tape". Images, which are an essential part of this description.

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